Paul, at 08:48 on Feb 22 1996, you wrote to Dave Hatch...

DH> I wait with bated breath and sense of impending doom to see what happens.

DH> (It could be quite good, actually.  Go for it, prosper, and work well. :-)

PE> I got my first failed inbound connect today.  Looks like Bill
PE> Grimsley's USR Sportster, got a 28800 with no EC which then
PE> dropped out.  Had the same symptom with the Spirit Thunder.
PE> This is still unconfirmed though, I'm waiting for Bill to report
PE> in, so I can document it.

Confirmed failure rate of around 70% of all calls to your board so far. 
Your Spirit was much better, at less than 10% failures.  A line probe shows
your lines to be marginally better than atrocious, although your Courier
still managed to connect 100% of the time, albeit occasionally at 26400. 
Not so the M34F though, which doesn't appear to cope at all well with poor
lines.  Note the following (and weep)...

: 25 Feb 09:57:35.85 Entering POLL Mode
* 25 Feb 09:57:37.94 Processing node 3:711/934 -- Ten Minute Limit
: 25 Feb 09:57:37.94 Dialing 02-436-1785
# 25 Feb 09:58:05.00 CONNECT 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.13 OK
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.16 Freq     Level
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.16  150     40
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.19  300     29
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.19  450     27
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.22  600     27
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.25  750     27
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.25  900     27
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.28 1050     28
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.28 1200     28
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.31 1350     29
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.35 1500     30
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.35 1650     31
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.38 1800     31
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.38 1950     32
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.41 2100     33
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.41 2250     34
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.44 2400     35
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.47 2550     35
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.47 2700     36
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.50 2850     37
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.50 3000     38
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.53 3150     39
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.53 3300     41
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.56 3450     44
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.60 3600     50
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.60 3750     59
# 25 Feb 09:58:12.63 CONNECT 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS

Pretty shabby, wouldn't you say?

Regards, Bill

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